Downton Abby Season 2 Episode 2

Every time I watch this show and the episode ends I always want to watch the next one right after, but Maria and Aaron will not let me. This was one of the episodes where I wanted to see what would happen next. The war is still going on in this episode. We see that William goes of to war and Daisy knows she does not like him but she has given William the impression that they are together. We also see that Lady Sybil is working in the hospital and Thomas gets put there after shooting his own hand so he could come back home and not fight in the war. We see that Lady Edith is spending time at a farm helping but ends up getting in a mess because the husband and her get really close and they end up kissing. The wife saw this and was not happy about this. We also see that Mary realizes that she loves Matthew and she wants him,but the problem is that Matthew is engaged to be married. Sir Anthony has asked Mary as well to be engaged, and she said she would get back to him on that. Mr. Carson is working really hard and it is catching up to him because during dinner he collapsed. Lady Mary went to go visit him and he encouraged her to tell Crawley how she really felt. Anna on the other hand encouraged her not to because of the pain she went through with Bates leaving. It was really hard for Anna to have Bates just leave with his wife. Another thing that happened was there was a lot of people in the hospital and there was not a lot of room, so there was an idea to have them housed at Downton Abbey. Violet was not happy with this idea and mentioned that they were outsiders. Violet did not want them there, but the mom stood up to tell her it was not her house. So they agree to let the hurt war soldiers come to be taken care of there. Lady Mary decided to go tell Crawley about how she feels and when she is on the way she runs into his fiance. She was crying and told Mary about how Crawley was leaving early and how sad she was about it. Mary saw how this girl cared for Crawley and she decided not to voice her feelings for him.
We see many themes in this episode. We see the theme of outsiders in this episode. We see that grandma Violet sees her self has being better and sees the rest of society as outsiders. We see this when she does not want the hurt and dying war soldiers to come into the house to help them. She sees them as being lower than her and it would be a disgust to her to have them in the house. In today's society there are so many people that feel like outsiders because of people like Grandma Violet. There are even people in the church that think they are better than the marginalized and often have a cold heart. There are so many people that need to be taken care of in the church and mostly outside of the church. This generation needs to know that Jesus wants us to be His hands and feet. We are not to think ourselves better than a homeless man. But we are to extend our help to them and show them Jesus, not comparing anyone.

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This weeks episode was filled with many surprises. I was shocked at what happened in this plot. We see in this episode that the mom is pregnant. This was huge news for the entire household. It also meant that if it was a boy then Crawley would not be able to get the inheritance. The mom was really happy she was pregnant. Meanwhile Mrs. Patmore's sight is getting worst. Robert sends her to London to get her eyes checked at fixed. Anna goes with her and while she is there she meets with Mr. Bates mom to get the real story of why Mr. Bates won't talk about the stealing. Mr. Bates mom said that it was his wife that stole and he covered for her. He took the blame for his wife. Anna goes back to tell Robert the truth about Mr. Bates. Thomas is still at being no good. He looks for another job because he sees that the truth of his schemes are being found out. Also at this time we find out that there is a chance that Sir Anthony might ask Edith to marry, but Mary ruins the chances of that. Mary and Mr. Crawley are not doing that well and he decides that he is going to leave and take some time to figure life out. Then the unexpected happens in the episode. Cora the wife loses the baby because Ms. O Brien puts soap on the floor so she can trip after she got out of the bath. When Ms. O Brien realizes what she has done she goes to fix it but it was too late. The reason she did that was becasue she was upset because she thought Cora was trying to get rid of her, but that wasnt the truth. Cora was finding a new maid for her mother in law. Ms. O brien felt guilty. They have a garden party and Cora was depressed about the baby. We find out during the garden party that Gwen gets a job and is super excited about it. WE also find out at the garden party that war has begun!!!

This episode was filled with so much. There were many things that happened that I did not expect. There were different themes in this episode. There have been repeated themes in this episode. The theme I saw in this was that the no matter what good will overcome bad. The light will always outshine darkness. I see this with Mr. Bates most especially. Thomas and Ms. Obrien tried to get him in trouble so many times. They lied about him and tried to kick him out. Anna went to find the truth about him and she was right that he was not that person to steal. She was able to tell Robert and the truth was found out. We see that good will always win. There are even people in the church that have bad motives and wrong hearts and the truth is that God knows their hearts. Light will always come out of  the darkness. We see this over and over again.

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This episode was very entertaining. We see different things unfold in this episode. We see Sybil get into a lot of trouble. She goes to this place that is very dangerous for her. This guy is talking about not having woman's rights. She goes because she wants to be an activist for woman's rights. She gets in trouble when her dad finds out and he forbids her to go anymore. We see that the grandmother finds out  about mary but she decided to protect her granddaughter and not to put her to shame with the information that she found out.Lady Edith gets taken out by sir Anthony and is fancied by him. Lady Mary and Cousin Crawley get closer and he kisses her. He proposed to her and she did not give him a response. She only tells her mom that she realizes that she loves him. Lady Sybil goes back to the place that she was not supposed to and she gets pushed and her face hits really hard and she got knocked out. Crawley was there to save her and they brought her to his house. The father was furious when he found out and threatened that the drivers job be taken away. Lady Sybil insists that he must not lose his job because it was not his fault. In the lower stairs there was more drama with Thomas. He was trying to get Bates out of the house again. They tried to frame him with wine and Bates. Thomas had Daisy lie to Mr. Carson, but she goes back to him to tell him the truth. Mr. Bates almost kissed Anna, but they didn't. I wish they had!!

I saw the theme of woman's rights in this episode. We this mostly with Lady Sybil. She went to a rally to advocate woman's rights. She thought it was not fair that women could not speak and could not have a voice. We see this in the church. We see in the foursquare church that we are open to having woman in ministry. There are denominations out there that are not advocates of woman in ministry. There are some that dont respect woman speaking to a congregation. God wants to use this generation no matter where they come from. No matter if they are female or male. Just as Sybil wanted to stand up we need to stand for what is right.

Downton abbey Episode 5

This episode was very interesting. We see in this episode more of the character of people be revealed. We see that Ms. Obrien wants to stir trouble and she stirs edith to find out what happened the night Mary's lover died. So Edith talks to daisy about what happened. Daisy saw what happened that night and knew the truth but did not tell any one about it. So Edith talked to her to fish information out of her. It was confirmation for edith when she overheard her mom and sister talk about the situation and was putting Edith down in the midst of their conversation. Edith left very hurt and upset. We see that Mr. crawley is starting to like Mary, but Mary makes him upset and makes him back off with a decision she made to get her sister jealous. We see that thomas is up to no good again as he is trying to get Mr. Bates in trouble and kicked out of the house. He set him up with something that was missing in the house. Anna and Mr. Bates were a lot smarter than Thomas thought and they figured it out and were able to save themselves from that mess. We see that Mr. Bates and Anna have an important conversation. Anna confesses her love to Mr.Bates and we know Mr.Bates loves her too. Mr. Bates does not say it and says that it wouldn't work in their situation at the moment. WE can kind of see that Mr. Bates may have something in the past that is holding him back but we are not sure of that yet. We also find out that Mrs. Patmore is becoming blind. She accidentally put salt on dessert and the guests ate it.
The theme that I saw her was secrecy. We see different examples of that. We see there are secrets between the Lady of the HOuse and her daughter Mary. There are only a select few that know about what really happened that night with Lady Mary and that guy that died. We see that Ms. Obrien stirs up trouble and causes Lady Edith to have some secrets of wanting some leverage on her sister. We see there is secrecy with Thomas trying to get Mr. Bates in trouble. There are a lot of secrets going around. The lesson I have learned about secrets is that what happens in the dark will always be brought into the light. I think that secrets and gossip occurs in the church today and it causes division. There must be people of integrity in the church. This generation needs an awakening of having integrity. It can be dangerous to have secrets and talk behind each other's back. There needs to be a fresh reminder with this generation of living a life of integrity in the smallest things.